Giorgi Lomaia ( ka, გიორგი ლომაია; born 8 August 1979) is a Georgian retired professional
football
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er who played as a
goalkeeper
In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...
. He made his debut for the
Georgia national team in 1998 and was capped 45 times.
Club career
Lomaia spent the 2006 season playing for
Russian Premier League
The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...
side
Luch-Energia Vladivostok. In late January 2007 he moved to
2. Bundesliga side
Carl Zeiss Jena on a short-term deal until the end of the 2006–07 season.
He left Jena in June 2007 and joined
Karpaty Lviv in Ukraine. Having played two matches in
Lviv
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, Lomaia departed due to the club's dissatisfaction with his physical conditions.
International career
In International football, Lomaia was the first choice goalkeeper in
UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
Qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2008 finals tournament took place between August 2006 and November 2007. Fifty teams were divided into seven groups. In a Round-robin tournament, double round-robin system, each team played against each of the others ...
with seven appearances.
In
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
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, he took the first choice place from
Akaki Devadze.
In
UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
Qualification for the 2004 UEFA European Championship took place between September 2002 and November 2003.
Fifty teams were divided into ten groups, with each team playing the others in their group twice, once at home and once away. The top te ...
with eight appearances, he took the first choice place from
Davit Gvaramadze.
Personal life
He is the brother of
Davit Lomaia.
References
External links
Profile on Inter Baku's Official Site
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1979 births
Living people
Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
21st-century sportsmen from Georgia (country)
Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
Georgia (country) men's international footballers
FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
FC Spartak Moscow players
FC Khimki players
FC Luch Vladivostok players
FC Carl Zeiss Jena players
FC Karpaty Lviv players
Shamakhi FK players
Russian Premier League players
Ukrainian Premier League players
2. Bundesliga players
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Ukraine
Footballers from Tbilisi
Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Azerbaijan
Expatriate men's footballers in Azerbaijan
Men's association football goalkeepers